RAW VEGAN CYCLE TOUR, POSSIBLE?
My question is this--can I design a system for sticking to this style of eating while I'm on the road?
For the past 6 months or so I've been eating a mostly raw, mostly vegan diet. No refined sugar, soy or wheat either. I like it. Feels good, kind-of natural for me in many ways. I make plenty of exceptions, especially when eating with people, and I'd say I have about an 80% success rate which is good enough for me.
I know this is quite easy to do while I'm at home, with an average, active life--BUT on the tour? I don't know if its possible. Before I throw in the towel I'm going ot be doing a lot of research to see what the viability of this is going to be.
Right now I use a lot of equipment--like a VitaMix, a juicer, and a food processor which I certainly cant take on a bike. And I think its safe to say that its a CRON (calorie restricted optimal nutrition) way to eat--and on a cycle tour you burn thousands of extra calories a day--so getting enough is going to be a challenge. And finding the right stuff, in the middle of winter in Wyoming?
I'm going to begin some research on raw vegan athlete nutrition, to see what I turn up and I'll be sharing my findings as I go. I think it CAN be done, I just need to be Very Smart (and convince Zach to build me a mobile sprouting system!)
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Ummm...be careful with that, ok? I mean...calories will be needed. And will taste yummy at the end of a long cycling day. Yeah.
Hello from Brazil. I found this post by searching "vegan cycle tour". This search on portuguese found nothing. We are planning to do a bicycle travel around South America begining july, and we stop eating animal products 6 months ago like you. About 3 weeks we are on mostly Raw diet and feeling really well. Now a lot of doubts appear. We are preparing some recipes we tested on a 15 days trip last month to put on our blog, but this travel was on Brazil, and we are going first to argentina, a well known reputation about meat. So I wrote to you hopping we can exchange our experiences and maybe begin a net of raw-vegan-cycletourers? There is not much information available. Talking about sprouts, do you know a book "Miles from Nowhere"? It is from 1980's and they tell about some guys they encounter on the road who grown alfafa on the handlebar bag, in the 80's! I wonder why we just can't find this kind of information on the internet? I invite you to joins us on this challenge, can we travel by bicycle trough long distances on raw, or vegan diet?
Best regards!
Ana and André
Oi amigos! Hey guys so I saw the posts here I pretty much came across this by the same means as ana and Andre. I am searching because I am planning my first tour this summer, something like 3-4 weeks. I am a recent vegan and although I could survive on going back to an omni diet for the tour, I would really prefer not to seeing as I am really enjoying how I feel.
I guess cost is a factor too. I will be checking back for ideas. cheers!